Steve Bowman schrieb folgendes am Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 11:00:41PM -0700: > > I realize that is the only way that I can do it. I just didn't want to > > hassle with looking through the folders on the debian site. I guess I'll > > have > > to live with it. > > Maybe there's a way to tell apt to use a different cache/admindir etc., > a different arch, and just do download only. I know there's a way to use > a different admindir since boot-floppies uses it and I know you can tell > it to download only. So the question is, can you tell it, from linux, > to use hurd-i386 arch when looking at the mirrors? Maybe you can ask > on one of the other lists (I'm sure Joey could tell you).
You need something like, /var/local/apt-hurd $ cat apt.conf APT { /* This is not necessary if the two machines are the same arch, it tells the remote APT what architecture the Debian machine is */ Architecture "hurd-i386"; Get::Download-Only "true"; }; Dir { /* Use the disc for state information and redirect the status file from the /var/lib/dpkg default */ State "/var/local/apt-hurd/"; State::status "status"; State::avaiable "available"; State::lists "/var/local/apt-hurd/lists/"; Aptitude::State "/var/local/apt-hurd"; // Binary caches will be stored localy Cache "/var/local/apt-hurd/"; Cache::archives "/var/local/apt-hurd/archives/"; // Location of the source list. Etc "/var/local/apt-hurd/"; }; Last time I tried this it doesn't work but apt has improved. I think the Problem was dselect. But now you can use aptitude or capt - I haven't tried this yet. Use APT_CONFIG="/var/local/apt-hurd/apt.conf" export APT_CONFIG aptitude Good luck, -- Stefan Karrmann